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New York Minority Records Online at the federal level

US – African American Records – Discover Freedmen, at FS (searches FS Freedmen’s Bureau records)

US – African American Records – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images (misc, court, land, labor, medical, African American) (NOT in Discover Freedmen searches)

US – African American Records – United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images (census, labor, immigration, slavery, birth, death, military, African American) (NOT in Discover Freedmen searches)

US – African American Records – United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images (bank, business, family information, African American)

US – African American Records – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images (medical, African American, cemetery, birth, death, family names)

US – African American Records – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images (African American, rations, relief, slavery, slave owners)

US – African American Records – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, land, court)

US – African American Records – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, legal)

US – African American Records – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, school, legal)

US – African American Records – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, at FS

US – African American Records – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872, at FS

US – African American Records – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Claim Records,1865-1872, at FS

US – African American Records – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872, at FS 

US – African American Records – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, court, military, school, misc)

US – African American Records – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Assistant Commissioner, 1865-1872, at FS (NOT in Discover Freedmen searches)

US – African American Records – U.S., Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867, at Anc$

US – African American Records – US Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database, at NPS

US – African American Records – Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, at FS

US – African American Records – The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences, at UCI

US – African American Records – African American Griots, at RW

US – African American Records – Great slave narratives, IA

US – African American Records – African American genealogy: a bibliography and guide to sources, at FS

US – African American Records – African American slave narratives Vol I, IA

US – African American Records – African American slave narratives Vol II, IA

US – African American Records – African American slave narratives Vol III, IA

US – African American Records – African, Americans and the Gettysburg campaign, IA

US – African American Records – Afro, American encyclopaedia : or, the thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race, embracing addresses, lectures, biographical sketches, sermons, poems, names of universities, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, books, and a history of the denominations, giving, FS

US – African American Records – Before the Mayflower : a history of the Negro in America, 1619, 1964, IA

US – African American Records – Black courage 1775, 1783: Documentation of Black participation in the American Revolution, IA

US – African American Records – Black genesis : a resource book for African, American genealogy, IA

US – African American Records – Black Indian genealogy research, IA

US – African American Records – Black slavery emancipation research in the Northern States, FS

US – African American Records – Compiled military service records of volunteer soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops : 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry : pamphlet describing M1817, IA

US – African American Records – Compiled military service records of volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops, 2nd through 7th Colored Infantry: including 3rd Tennessee Volunteers (African Descent), 6th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent), and 7th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent)., IA

US – African American Records – Compiled military service records of volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops, infantry organizations, 14th through 19th, IA

US – African American Records – Finding a place called home : a guide to African, American genealogy and historical identity, IA

US – African American Records – Forgotten patriots : African American and American Indian patriots of the Revolutionary War : a guide to service, sources, and studies, DAR

US – African American Records – Free Negro owners of slaves in the United States in 1830, together with Absentee ownership of slaves in the United States in 1830, GB

US – African American Records – Generations past : a selected list of sources for Afro, American genealogical research, at FS

US – African American Records – History of the American negro and his institutions, at FS

US – African American Records – History of the American Negro in the great world war : his splendid record in the battle zones of Europe, including a resume of his past services to his country in the wars of the revolution, of 1812, the war of the rebellion, the Indian wars on the front, HT

US – African American Records – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 1. Cases from the courts of England, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky), at FS

US – African American Records – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 2. Cases from the courts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee), at FS

US – African American Records – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 3. Cases from the courts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana), at FS

US – African American Records – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 4. Cases from the Courts of New England, the Middle States, and the District of Columbia), at FS

US – African American Records – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 5. Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica), at FS

US – African American Records – List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records, at FS

US – African American Records – List of free black heads of families in the first census of the United States, 1790, at FS

US – African American Records – Memorials of Lieut. George H. Walcott, late of the 30th U.S. Colored Troops, HT

US – African American Records – Missing pages in American history : revealing the services of Negroes in the early wars in the United States of America, 1641, 1815, GB

US – African American Records – Negro population in the United States, 1790, 1915, HT

US – African American Records – Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities, at FS

US – African American Records – Patriots of color: a peculiar beauty and merit : African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill, HT

US – African American Records – Progress of a race, or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro : from the bondage of slavery, ignorance, and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust, at FS

US – African American Records – Recollections of a colored troop, LOC

US – African American Records – Record of the services of the seventh regiment U.S. colored troups, at FS

US – African American Records – Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, late 1st S.C. Volunteers, GB

US – African American Records – Report to the Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 1864 : the refugees from slavery in Canada West, HT

US – African American Records – Services of colored Americans in the wars of 1776 and 1812, at FS

US – African American Records – Slavery in the courtroom: an annotated bibliography of American cases, HT

US – African American Records – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, GB

US – African American Records – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans, GB

US – African American Records – The Forty, Third Regiment United States Colored Troops, Gutenberg

US – African American Records – The National cyclopedia of the colored race, GB

US – African American Records – The negro as a soldier in the war of the rebellion, LOC

US – African American Records – The Negro soldier : a select compilation, at FS

US – African American Records – The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. narrating the hardships hair, breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author, HathiTrust

US – African American Records – The Underground railroad from slavery to freedom, Gutenberg

US – African American Records – Two colored women with the American Expeditionary Forces, at FS

US – African American Records – Who’s who in colored America : an illustrated biographical directory of nolable living persons of African descent in the United States, at FS

US – African American Records – Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico, at IA

US – Japanese American Records – United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946, index

US – Minority Records – United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images

US – Native American Records – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index & links to images, at FS

US – Native American Records – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index & links to images, at FS

US – Native American Records – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images, at FS

 

 

New York Minority Records Online at the state level

New York – African American Records – New York Slavery Records Index, at CUNY

New York – African American Records – Northeast Slavey Records Index (NESRI), at CUNY

New York – African American Records – Quaker marriages, births, deaths, slaves, Nine Partners M.M., Dutchess CO, NY, at IA

New York – African American Records – The cradle of freedom : a history of the Negro in Rochester, western New York and Canada, at FS

New York – African American Records – Underground railroad in Tompkins County, (N.Y.), at FS

New York – African American Records – Census of slaves, 1755, at FS

New York – African American Records – Life Stories: Profiles of Black New Yorkers During Slavery and Emancipation, at SNY

New York – African American Records – The African-American Migration Experience, Schomburg Center of Research in Black Culture

New York – African American Records – Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection, at CUL

New York – African American Records – African American Women Writers of the 19th Century, at NYPL

New York – African American Records – Baltimore, slavery, and constitutional history, at FS

New York – African American Records – Records of Slavery, at NJDH

New York – African American Records – Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of New Jersey relative to the manumission of Negroes and others holden in bondage, at HT

New York – African American Records – African-American Related Collections, at NJHS

New York – African American Records – Transcriptions of early county records of New Jersey, at Anc$

New York – African American Records – African American Oral History Project, at M&MTL

New York – African American Records – Patriots of Color, at Arc$

New York – African American Records – Inventory of the Blacks in the Railroad Industry Collection, 1946-1954, at NYPL

New York – African American Records – Guide to the Ichabod Brush Estate Papers, 1817, at QPLDA

New York – African American Records – Guide to the Wilson and Jane Rantus papers, 1834-1883, at QPLDA

New York – African American Records – “Genealogical History of Black Families of Orange County, New York”, at OCGC$ 

New York – African American Records – Census of slaves 1755. Reprint of vol. III, chapter XI of E.B. O’Callaghan’s The Documentary history of the State of New York (Albany: Weed, Parson & Co.) 1850, at FS

New York – African American Records – Life Stories: Profiles of Black New Yorkers During Slavery and Emancipation, at SNY

New York – African American Records – African American History of Western New York, at UB

New York – African American Records – Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection, at CUL

New York – African American Records – African American Women Writers of the 19th Century, at NYPL

New York – African American Records – The Missing Chapter: Untold Stories of the African-American Presence in the Mid-Hudson Valley, at HRVH

New York – African American Records – African American Presence in the Hudson Valley, at HRVH

New York – African American Records – A History of Negro Slavery in New York, at GB

New York – African American Records – “Manumissions and Certificates of Freedom in the New York Secretary of State Deeds,”, at NYG&B$

New York – African American Records – “New York State Manumissions,” Masters’ Surnames A-Z, at NYG&B$

New York – Slavery & Bondage – Early development of the anti-slavery crusade with special references to New York, at FS

New York – Slavery & Bondage – First presentation of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” : [Peale’s Troy Museum], at FS

New York – Slavery & Bondage – The Jerry rescue, October 1, 1851, at FS

New York – Chinese Records – New York Chinese Exclusion Index, 1882-1960, at FS

New York – French Records – Early U.S. French Catholic Church Records, 1695-1954, at Anc$

New York – German Records – Data Files Relating to the Immigration of Germans to the United States, 1850 – 1897, index, at NARA

New York – Italian Records – Data Files Relating to the Immigration of Italians to the United States, 1855 – 1900, index, at NARA

New York – Jewish Records – Early American Jewry: the Jews of New York, New England and Canada 1649-1794, at FS

New York – Jewish Records – Marriage ceremonial book with marriage records, 1899-1919, at FS

New York – Jewish Records – American Jewish Historical Society, Center for Jewish History, New York City, Selected Insolvent Debtor’s Cases, 1787-1861, at Anc$

New York – Minority Records – The Belgians, first settlers in New York and in the middle states : with a review of the events which led to their immigration. A claim based on Dutch and British official reports, and on statements by authoritative Dutch and American historians and geographers, at FS

New York – Minority Records – The book of names especially relating to the early Palatine and the first settlers in the Mohawk Valley, at FS

New York – Minority Records – Chinese in New York, at FS

New York – Minority Records – Chinese in New York, at FS

New York – Minority Records – Historical sketches of the Swedes on the Delaware, at FS

New York – Minority Records – The Huguenots of Ulster County : read before the Newburgh Historical Society December 13, 1889, at FS

New York – Minority Records – Moravian journals relating to central New York, 1745-66, at FS

New York – Minority Records – Naturalization of Jews in New York under the Act of 1740, at FS

New York – Minority Records – Palatines along the Mohawk and their church in the wilderness, at FS

New York – Minority Records – Scandinavian immigrants in New York, 1630-1674 : with appendices on Scandinavians in Mexico and South America, 1532-1640; Scandinavians in Canada, 1619-1620; some Scandinavians in New York in the Eighteenth Century; German immigrants in New York, 1630-1674, at FS

New York – Minority Records – The German emigration from New York Province into Pennsylvania, at FS

New York – Minority Records – Henry Hudson and the Dutch in New York, at FS

New York – Minority Records – The Mohawk Dutch and the Palatines : their background and their influence in the development of the United States of America, at FS

New York – Minority Records – Municipal government and land tenure, at FS

New York – Minority Records – Norwegians in New York 1825-1925, at FS

New York – Native American Records – The case of the Seneca Indians in the state of New York : illustrated by facts, at FS

New York – Native American Records – Duke Indian oral history collection and index, at FS

New York – Native American Records – A further illustration of the case of the Seneca Indians in the state of New York in a review of a pamphlet entitled “an appeal to the Christian Community”, at FS

New York – Native American Records – History of the Indian tribes of Hudson’s River : their origin, manners and customs; tribal and sub-tribal organizations; Wars, treaties, etc, etc, at FS

New York – Native American Records – Holland Land Company records and related documents at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, at FS

New York – Native American Records – The Indians of Greater New York, at FS

New York – Native American Records – Iroquois religion and its relation to their morals, at FS

New York – Native American Records – Journals of the military expedition of Major General John Sullivan against the six nations of Indians in 1779 : with records of centennial celebrations, at FS

New York – Native American Records – Kanadesaga and Geneva …, at FS

New York – Native American Records – Legends, traditions and laws, of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and history of the Tuscarora Indians, at FS

New York – Native American Records – Moravian journals relating to central New York, 1745-66, at FS

New York – Native American Records – Notes on the Iroquois : or, contributions to American history, antiquities, and general ethnology, at FS

New York – Native American Records – Official record of Indian conference, called to determine the status of the Indians of the Six Nations on the Indian reservations of the state of New York : and their relations to the federal and state governments. Held in the assembly hall of the Onondaga Historical Association at Syracuse, N.Y., March 6 and 7, 1919, at FS

New York – Native American Records – The origin of the name Manhattan : with historical and ethnological notes, at FS

New York – Native American Records – Permanency of Iroquois clans and sachemships, at FS

New York – Native American Records – Records of Cattaraugus (Seneca Indian) Reservation, New York State, at FS

New York – Native American Records – Red Jacket : last of the Seneca, at FS

New York – Native American Records – Report of Special Committee to Investigate the Indian Problem of the State of New York, appointed by the Assembly of 1888, at FS

New York – Native American Records – Treaty between Gov. Richard Nicolls and the sachems of the Esopus Indians, 7 Oct. 1665; copy of the original made 12 Feb. 1875, at FS

New York – Native American Records – Pioneer history of the Holland purchase of western New York; embracing some account of the ancient remains : a brief history of our immediate predecessors, the confederated Iroquois, their system of government, wars, etc., a synopsis of colonial history, some notices of the border wars of the revolution …, at FS

 

 

 

New York Minority Records Online at the county level

Dutchess County – Slavery and Bondage – Census – 1755 – Census of Slaves 1755, at FS

Queens County – Slavery and Bondage – Census – 1755 – Census of Slaves 1755, at FS

Schoharie County – Slavery and Bondage – Some of the Descendants of Johann Peter Kniskern of Schoharie County, New York, Born Circa 1685, Did November 11, 1759, see pages 193-194, at FS

Tompkins County – Slavery and Bondage – Underground Railroad in Tompkins County, (N.Y.), at FS

Ulster County – Slavery and Bondage – Census – 1755 – Census of Slaves 1755, at FS

Westchester County – Slavery and Bondage – Census – 1755 – Census of Slaves 1755, at FS

 

 

 

New York Minority Records Online at the city level

Albany – Minorities – Yearbook (Dutch Settlers Society of Albany), Dutch Settlers Society of Albany (New York), at FS

New York City – Jewish Records – Immigrant Records, 1884-1952, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), at FS

New York City – Jewish Records – Jewish Immigrant Aid Societies’ Records of Jewish Arrivals, 1913-1947, Port of Philadelphia. Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants, at FS

New York City – Jewish Records – Records of the Congregation, 1825-1936, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun (New York City, New York), at FS

New York City – Jewish Records – The Rise of the Jewish Community of New York 1654-1860, at FS

New York City – Minorities – In Old New York : the Irish Dead in Trinity and St. Paul’s Churchyards, at FS

New York City – Minorities – Registers of Signatures of Depositors, 1871-1874, Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company (New York City), at FS

New York City – Minorities – Registers of the Births, Marriages, and Deaths of the “Eglise Francoise a La Nouvelle York,” from 1688 to 1804 : and Historical Documents Relating to the French Protestants in New York During the Same Period, at FS

New York City – Minorities – The Rise of the Jewish Community of New York 1654-1860, at FS

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